We have looked at creating an automatically rotating wheel which a number of posts on this site, that span a number of applications. Rigging a wheel in Maya, Cinema 4D, Blender, etc, although not so straight forward, all encompass more or less the same implementations.
[pullquote]explores motion and rigging using Houdini’s procedural power[/pullquote]Here, Andrew Lowell who is the lead FX TD instructor for Lost Boys Studios, shows how the procedural premise of Houdini can make complex rigging tasks a pretty straight forward task.
If you have rigged a wheel in any other application, you should check this out to find out how to use a few expressions, logic and some CHops can turn a complex rigging task into a simple rig.
